Current Red Bull Racing

Red Bull Racing

FIA Entry: Red Bull Racing Renault
Car 1: Sebastien Vettel
Car 2: Mark Webber
Engine: Renault V8
Team Owner: Dietrich Mateschitz
Team Principal: Christian Horner
Chief Technical: Office Adrian Newey
Chief Designer: Rob Marshall
Race Engineer Car 1: Guillaume “Rocky” Rocquelin
Race Engineer Car 2: Ciaron Pilbeam

Stats as of end 2010

First Entered 2005
Races Entered 107
Race Wins 15
Pole Positions 20
Fastest Laps 12
Driver World Championships 1
Constructor World Championships 1

Team History

Before Red Bull

In 1997 Paul Stewart, aided by his father Jackie and the Ford Motor Company, made the leap from F3000 to F1 as an entrant. Jonny Herbert won 1 race for the Stewart team before it was sold off to Ford who re-branded the cars as Jaguar.

Ford stuck with it through thick and thin (mainly thin) through to the end of 2004 before selling the team to Dietrich Mateschitz, who owns the Red Bull drinks brand, for $1 on the understanding he invested $400 million over 3 years

Red Bull Racing

With Christian Horner installed as team principal, McLaren refugee David Coulthard and Christian Klien as the drivers Red Bull went racing. Their first season was certainly more successful than Jaguar had managed, even with the same Cosworth power plant, with Coulthard managing a 4th place at the European Grand Prix and the team finishing 7th in the Constructors Championship.

Adrian Newey joined from McLaren as chief designer for 2006 and Red Bull swapped to Ferrari engines. Coulthard managed a podium at his "home" race in Monaco prompting Christian Horner to jump naked, other than wearing a red cape, into a swimming pool.

Christian Klien, who shared the car with Vitantonio Liuzzi in 2005 and Robert Doornbos in 2006, departed the team for 2007 and was replaced by Mark Webber. The RB3 was the first full "Newey" car and was coupled with a Renault motor. The car was very unreliable, suffering from a variety of different problems but Webber managed a podium at the European Grand Prix and the team finished 5th in the WCC.

Retaining the same engine and drivers for 2008 Red Bull slipped back to 7th in the WCC and again only managed a single podium, for Coulthard in Canada, but the reliability issues which plagued the car the previous season were mainly resolved.

2009 was Red Bull's break through year. With Coulthard having retired Webber was joined by Red Bull junior driver Sebastien Vettel. The new rules allowed Newey to design a car which challenged for both the Drivers and Constructors Championship. Webber won 2 races, Vettel 4 and the team climbed to 2nd in WCC taking 3 pole positions en-route.

In 2010 Red Bull justified Mateschitz's investment winning the Constructors title and Vettel the Drivers Championship. They won 9 races through the season, 5 for Vettel and 4 for Webber and took 10 poles. Webber led the title race for much of the season but it was the 23 year old Vettel who stole the title in the last race of the season and became the youngest Champion as a result.

2011 sees the team retain the same driver line up as 2010 and continue with Renault engine power in the new RB7 car.
 
I have no words to express how delusional Perez's father is

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Well at least Perez's dad didn't post a message accusing Verstappen of cheating on his wife like Verstappen's mum did about Perez

LOL
 
this is a weird 1, this Red Bull Honda partnership is very odd because does this mean that Honda are leaving again in 2026 because the rumour goes that they never really left. & Honda the paddock believes currently have the most powerful engine on the grid. they've also registered an interest in 2026. surely by now people would see honda as a very desirable option, for a privateer like andretti (hopefully) & Williams,


Ford should be good because they are 1 of the biggest engine manufactures in the world & they hold so many records in this sport
  • they are still 4th most experienced engine manufacturers
  • they are 3rd most successful engine manufacturers
  • have as many driver & constructor titles as Mercedes.
  • have the 2 biggest win streaks in F1, at 22 & 20
  • still the only engine to have won every race of a season in 1969 & 1973
but the issue is that all of that was between 1967 & 1983. since then its been great the poorer relation to Renault in Benetton fight in 1994, then decent spell at stewart, then a disaster at Jaguar that was so bad it prompted them to sell to Red Bull, & never to have return until potenially now
 
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Ford have never been a F1 engine manufacturer, Cosworth was the engine manufacturer and designer with Ford cash, a bit similar to Mercedes and Ilmor, though Mercedes bought a hived off part of Ilmor to make Mercedes engines, it will be interesting to see where the technology comes from for a Ford F1 engine. Should they make their own engine in the USA or even the UK they need to buy expertise which means existing engineers employed by current engine manufacturers
 
this is a weird 1, this Red Bull Honda partnership is very odd because does this mean that Honda are leaving again in 2026 because the rumour goes that they never really left. & Honda the paddock believes currently have the most powerful engine on the grid. they've also registered an interest in 2026. surely by now people would see honda as a very desirable option, for a privateer like andretti (hopefully) & Williams,


Ford should be good because they are 1 of the biggest engine manufactures in the world & they hold so many records in this sport
  • they are still 4th most experienced engine manufacturers
  • they are 3rd most successful engine manufacturers
  • have as many driver & constructor titles as Mercedes.
  • have the 2 biggest win streaks in F1, at 22 & 20
  • still the only engine to have won every race of a season in 1969 & 1973
but the issue is that all of that was between 1967 & 1983. since then its been great the poorer relation to Renault in Benetton fight in 1994, then decent spell at stewart, then a disaster at Jaguar that was so bad it prompted them to sell to Red Bull, & never to have return until potenially now
Well since Honda now says that they will be a manufacturer in 2026 I guess they have to make their own team or join forces with Williams like you said or Andretti.
 
Absolutely.

In almost every category of motorsport they've raced in they've been like Kentucky Fried Chicken. The colonels face may be on the bucket but he definitely isn't out back frying your drumsticks.
i never knew that, so they have taken all credit but none of the effort. is Cosworth not a sub section of ford then.
 
No definitely not, Cosworth were playing with Ford engines as long ago as 1958, their first engine was described as a Basically Derived Anglia engine(BDA) 105E block but subsequently Belt Driven Series A based on the Kent block and not the 1500 block that Lotus used in their cars. though there's no doubt that the original BDA was based on the 105E engine block, I was there in the middle 60's mechanicing for a friends Anglia when this Anglia appeared at Brands Hatch with an overhead twin cam belt driven 1000cc engine sponsored by the Kent Messenger newspaper for one of their reporters, it was untouchable it was known as the Broadspeed Anglia as Broadspeed were the unofficial Ford sponsored entrants of this Cosworth engine
#Tech – The Cosworth BD engine.
 
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